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Abbey Theatre 63 Boland, Eavan 2, 119, 145–6, 162, Æ (George Russell) 37, 50, 62, 163–5, 166, 168, 185, 186–7, 189, 86 193, 197, 198, 204, 207 aisling 21–3, 179, 180, 208 ‘Anna Liffey’ 164–5 Allen, Fergus 191 Code 165, 186 Allen, Michael 131, 167, 177, 182 ‘Emigrant Letters’ 186 Allingham, William 27, 30, 37, 38–43, InaTimeofViolence 164, 165 53, 65, 144, 215n Lost Land, The 186 ‘Among the Heather’ 41 ‘Mise Eire’ 164 Ballad Book: A Selection of the ‘Necessity for Irony, The’ 165 Choicest British Ballads 40, 41 ‘Suburban Woman: Another Detail’ ‘Fairies, The’ 39–40 165 ‘Girl’s Lamentation, The’ 40, 41 Braque, Georges 44 Laurence Bloomﬁeld in Ireland 41–3 Brearton, Fran 120, 121, 124, 128, 155 Ammons, A. R. 108, 141 British Empire 5, 7, 8, 14, 16–17, 26, Archer, Nuala 185 29, 36, 67, 113–15, 120, 121, 126, Arnold, Matthew 44, 62 128, 129, 130, 176, 197 Arts and Crafts Movement 53, 59, 62 Brodsky, Joseph 2 Ashbery, John 101, 104 Brooke, Charlotte 19 Auden, W. H. 59, 90, 91, 122, 180, 181, Brown, Terence 12, 15, 16, 66, 81, 91, 193 116, 123, 195 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 42 Barrie, J. M. 65 Buile Suibhne 109, 111, 141 Batten, Guinn 172 Bunting, Edward 10 Baudelaire, Charles 202 Bryant, William Cullen 145 Beardsley, Aubrey 122 Byron, George Gordon, Lord 14, 17, 18 Beckett, Samuel 27, 28, 56, 85, 158–60, 183 Callan, Ron 88 Beo! 143 Callanan, J. J. 17–20, 27, 29, 46 Binchy, Chris 194 ‘Outlaw of Lock Lene, The’ 19 Bishop, Elizabeth 141 ‘Recluse of Inchidony, The’ 17–18 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Campbell, Joseph 50, 79, 80, 90 34 Campbell, Matthew 8 Blake, William 3, 61, 63 Carbery, Ethna 49, 50, 53

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Carlyle, Thomas 39, 62, 64 Coghill, Rhoda 96 Carson, Ciaran 2, 167, 179, 199–202 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 181–3 Alexandrine Plan, The 202 Colum, Padraic 50, 79, 80–1, 85, 111, Belfast Confetti 198, 200–2 218n Breaking News 202 King of Ireland’s Son, The 66 ‘Dresden’ 200 ‘Plougher, The’ 54 First Language 199 ‘Poor Scholar of the Forties, A’ Irish for No, The 200 80–1, 90, 93, 96, 145 ‘La Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi’ 199 Wild Earth 80 ‘Punctuation’ 201–2 Comet 21 review of North, by Seamus Heaney Conte, Joseph 183 134 Corcoran, Neil 200 ‘Second Language’ 199–200 Coughlan, Patricia 135, 161 Star Factory, The 202 Craig, Maurice 96 ‘Turn Again’ 201 Crane, Hart 108 Twelfth of Never 202 Cronin, Anthony 20 Carter, Angela 149 Cronin, Michael 145 Cato 30 Cuala Press 63, 77 Catullus, Gaius Valerius 154 Chamfort, Nicolas 205 Dante Alighieri 205 Chesson, Nora Hopper 53 Davis, Thomas 25, 33, 38, 59, 66 Clarke, Austin 2, 27, 35, 37, 79, 81–5, Dawe, Gerald 177 89, 98, 99, 100, 102 Deane, Seamus 2, 19, 100, 115, 135–6, Ancient Lights 84 217n Collected Poems (1936) 83 Debeljak, Alesˇ 175 Echo at Coole, The 84 Delanty, Greg 185–6, 193, 204 Flight to Africa 84 Denman, Peter 33, 37, 81, 120 Horse-Eaters, The 84 Devlin, Denis 88, 97–9 Mnemosyne Lay in Dust 84–5 ‘Est Prodest’ 98, 99 Night and Morning 83, 84 ‘Heavenly Foreigner, The’ 99 Old-Fashioned Pilgrimage 84 Lough Derg and Other Poems 98–9 Penny in the Clouds, A 82, 85 ‘Lough Derg’ 98–9 Pilgrimage and Other Poems 82, 84 Dickens, Charles 46 ‘Pilgrimage’ 82–3 Dickinson, Emily 44, 184 Poetry in Modern Ireland 90 Didsbury, Peter 205 ‘Sentences’ 83 dinnseanchas 35 Sermon on Swift, A 84 Dolmen Press 101, 103 Tiresias 84, 85, 156 Donaghy, Lyle 90 TooGreataVine 84 Donnelly, Charles 128 Vengeance of Fionn, The 81 Douglas, Keith 59, 123, 128 Clifton, Harry 189–91 Dowson, Ernest 63 ‘God in France’ 190–1 Dryden, John 71, 87, 154 Coffey, Brian 99–100 Dublin Penny Journal 21 Death of Hektor 100 Dublin University Magazine 34 ‘Missouri Sequence’ 99 Duffy, Charles Gavan 25, 37

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Duhig, Ian 193 Gogan,´ Liam S. 148 Duncan, Robert 107 Gonne, Iseult 68, 69 Dunsany, Edward 53, 55 Gonne, Maud 63, 67, 68 Durcan, Paul 195 Gore-Booth, Eva 50–2, 161 Graham, Colin 2 Elgee, Jane 27 Graham, Jorie 85, 108 Eliot, George 65 Graves, Alfred Perceval 214n Eliot, T. S. 44, 45, 46, 52, 59, 81, 91, 97, Graves, Robert 59 98, 99 Gregory, Augusta 63, 69, 70, 74, 80, Four Quartets 99, 101, 103 86 Waste Land, The 44, 87 Grennan, Eamon 187–9, 190, 192 Esenin, Sergei 205 ‘Common Theme’ 189 Relations: New and Selected Poems Fallon, Peter 156, 187 188 Ferguson, Niall 5 ‘Stone Flight’ 188–9 Ferguson, Samuel 21, 27, 30, 33–8, 43, ‘Walk, Night Falling, Memory of My 46, 48, 49, 59, 64, 66, 81, 83 Father’ 189 ‘Abdication of Fergus Mac Roy, The’ Groarke, Vona 4–5, 6, 163, 174, 177, 36 206–9 Congal 28, 36–7 ‘Athlones’ 209 ‘Healing of Conall Carnach, The’ 36 ‘Domestic Arrangements’ 207 ‘Lament for Thomas Davis’ 34 Flight 208 Lays of the Western Gael, The 35 ‘Flight’ 208 ‘Pastheen Finn: Irish Rustic Song’ ‘Folderol’ 208 215n ‘House Style’ 207 ‘Tain-Quest, The’ 35–6, 214n Juniper Street 206, 208–9 ‘Welshmen of Tirawley, The’ 35, ‘Juniper Street’ 209 214n ‘Local Accent, The’ 208 Field Day 115 Other People’s Houses 207 Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing ‘Other People’s Houses’ 207 51, 144 Shale 207, 209 Fitzsimons, Andrew 100, 102 ‘Song’ 206 Flynn, Leontia 197, 198 Group, The (see Northern Irish Foster, R. F. 60, 175 Renaissance) Foster, Thomas C. 134 Guinness, Selina 67, 198 Fraser’s Magazine 43 Gwynn, Stephen 16 Freeman’s Journal 54 Friel, Brian 3, 115, 211n Haicead,´ Padraig´ ´ın 154 Frost, Robert 59, 102, 178 Hardiman, James 34 Hardy, Thomas 44, 59, 65, 142 Gardiner, Sam 191 Hartnett, Michael (M´ıcheal´ O´ Georgian poets 55, 97 hAirtneide)´ 151–4, 194, 203, 210 Gillis, Alan 84, 197 Adharca Broic 152 Ginsberg, Allen 84 Collected Poems 224n Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 24 Do Nuala: Foidhne Chrainn 152

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Farewell to English, A 151, 153 ‘Seeing Things’ 137–8 Inchicore Haiku 152–3 Spirit Level, The 137 Lia Nocht, An 152 ‘Squarings’ 138 ‘On Those Who Stole Our Cat, a ‘Sruth’ 130–1, 132 Curse’ 153 Station Island 88, 137, 141 Phurg´oid, An 152 Sweeney Astray 141 Poems to Younger Women 153–4 ‘Sweeney Redivivus’ 141 Translations 154 ‘Tollund Man, The’ 132 ‘USA’ 153 ‘Tollund Man in Springtime, The’ ‘Water Baby’ 153 138 Healy, Randolph 108, 109–10 ‘Toome’ 132 ‘Anthem’ 109 Wintering Out 125, 132, 133, 136 ‘Arbor Vitæ’ 110 as critic 139–41 ‘Envelopes’ 110 as translator 141–2, 222n ‘(The) Republic of Ireland’ 109–10 and Field Day 115 Heaney, Seamus 2, 4, 5, 59, 83, 89, 111, and gender 161 124, 130–42, 147, 150, 164, 177, and nationalism 2, 5, 114, 197 178, 189, 205 and Northern Irish Renaissance ‘Act of Union’ 133–6 114, 121, 124, 125, 128, 131, 167, ‘Aisling’ 133 177, 182, 198 ‘Anahorish’ 132 Heine, Heinrich 154 Beowulf 141 Hejinian, Lyn 166 ‘Bone Dreams’ 135 Henry, James 2, 28–33, 144 ‘Broagh’ 132 ‘I follow not the rhymer’s trade’ 29 Death of a Naturalist 124, 131 ‘Julian and Gallus, In the Castle of ‘Digging’ 136 Macellum’ 30 ‘Disappearing Island, The’ 210 Menippea 31 District and Circle 138–9 ‘Old Man’ 30 ‘District and Circle’ 138–9 ‘Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire’ Electric Light 130, 138 30 ‘Elegy’ 136 Thalia Petasata, or A Foot-Journey Field Work 136–7 from Carlsruhe to Bassano 32–3 ‘Flight Path, The’ 137, 140 ‘Very Old Man’ 30 ‘Funeral Rites’ 133 Herbert, George 124 Government of the Tongue, The Hewitt, John 95, 121 140–1 Higgins, F. R. 50, 69, 79, 80 ‘Grauballe Man, The’ 133 Higgins, Kevin 196 North 133, 136 Higgins, Rita Ann 166 ‘Ocean’s Love to Ireland’ 133, 135 Hobsbaum, Philip 131 ‘Personal Helicon, A’ 136 Hofmann, Michael 156, 182 Preoccupations: Selected Prose Homer 19, 30, 72, 75, 155, 181 1968–1978 140 Howe, Susan 20, 101, 104 Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures, Hufstader, Jonathan 187, 190 The 141 Hurston, Zora Neale 161 Seeing Things 137–8 Hutchinson, John 45

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Hyde, Douglas 38, 46–8, 52, 74 Kearney, Richard 1 Hyde Lees, George 69 Keats, John 4, 55 Kelly, L. G. 19 Iremonger, Valentin 95 Kendall, Tim 178, 179, 181 Irish language and translation, the Kennelly, Brendan 195 2–4, 7, 10, 17, 19–20, 21, 26–7, Kerrigan, John 156 45–8, 52–3, 59, 101, 102, 103, 104, Kiberd, Declan 2, 53, 56 109, 112, 130–1, 141–2, 143, Kingsley, Charles 65 161–3, 196, 203 Kinsella, Thomas 2, 22, 37, 83, 100, Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of 106, 124, 147, 197, 203 Ireland 34 Downstream 101, 102 Irish Statesman, The 86 ‘Downstream’ 101, 106 Irish Times, The 127, 143 Duanaire: 1600–1900, Poems of the Dispossessed, An 147 Jaccottet, Philippe 123 Nightwalker and Other Poems 101, James, Henry 91 102 Johnson, Lionel 50, 53, 63 ‘Nightwalker’ 101, 103 Johnston, Maria 209 One 103–5 Joyce, James 25, 59, 81, 100, 137 Peppercanisters, The 101–6 Finnegans Wake 218n Selected Life, A 101, 102 Joyce, Trevor 108, 109, 111 T´ain, The 101, 104 PoemsofSweeneyPeregrine 109 Vertical Man 101, 102 With the First Dream of Fire They and gender 162 Hunt the Cold: A Body of Work and Modernism 101–2 1966–2000 109 and nation 102–6, 164, 189, 197 and translation 101, 102, 103, 104, Kavanagh, Patrick 2, 79, 85, 89, 98, 99, 147–8, 163 100, 111, 140, 193 Kipling, Rudyard 16, 113 ‘Canal Bank Walk’ 89 ‘Come Dance with Kitty Stobling’ landscape (see also dinnseanchas) 17, 89 37, 43, 70, 82–3, 105 ‘Epic’ 88–9, 92–4 language writing 109, 110 Great Hunger, The 87, 90 Larkin, Philip 59, 102, 123, 142 Green Fool, The 87 Lasdun, James 156 ‘In Memory of My Mother’ 89 Lawless, Emily 50, 161 ‘Inniskeen Road: July Evening’ 86 Lebor Gabala Erinn 101, 103 ‘Kerr’s Ass’ 89 Ledwidge, Francis 55 ‘Lines Written on a Seat on the Lewis, C. S. 115 Grand Canal’ 89 Liber Angeli 172 ‘Lough Derg’ 88, 92 Liddy, James 185 ‘Plough-Horses’ 86 Listener, The 134 Ploughman and Other Poems 86–7, Lloyd, David 20, 24 89–95 Longley, Edna (nee´ Broderick) 59, 94, ‘Shancoduff’ 86 123, 125, 128, 131, 135, 155, 167, Tarr y Fly nn 87 169, 177, 182

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Poetry in the Wars 128, 136, 142, Mahaffy, J. P. 29 222n Mahon, Derek 5, 59, 92, 95, 114, Longley, Michael 5, 95, 114, 119, 119–23, 124, 125, 128, 129, 131, 123–8, 131, 163, 167, 177, 178, 163, 195, 198, 199, 203, 222n 191, 198 ‘After the Titanic’ 121 ‘Ceasefire’ 125, 127, 132 ‘Banished Gods, The’ 119, 122 Echo Gate, The 126 ‘Garage in Co. Cork, A’ 156 ‘Edward Thomas’s Poem’ 128, 155 Harbour Lights 123 Exploded View, An 125, 127 Hudson Letter, The 122 ‘Geisha’ 126 Hunt by Night 119, 122 Ghost Orchid, The 127–8, 155 ‘In Carrowdore Churchyard’ 120 Gorse Fires 126–7, 155 Lives 119 ‘Ice-Cream Man, The’ 128 ‘New Wave’ 123 ‘Letters’ 125, 222n Night-Crossing 119, 124, 125 Man Lying on a Wall 126 Poems 1962–1978 119 No Continuing City 124, 128 ‘Resistance Days’ 123 ‘On Hearing Irish Spoken’ 146–7 Snow Party, The 119 Snow Water 127, 128, 155 ‘Sunday Morning’ 120, 121 ‘Spiderwoman’ 155 ‘Swim in Co. Wicklow, A’ 123 ‘Terez´ın’ 126 ‘Tractatus’ 121 Weather in Japan, The 127 Yellow Book, The 122 ‘Wounds’ 125–6 as translator 154–8, 160 and translation 146–7, 154–6, Mallarme,´ Stephane´ 63, 202 225n Mandelstam, Osip 140, 205 Lorca, Federico Garc´ıa 154 Mangan, James Clarence 20–5, 26, 28, Lowell, Robert 136, 140–1 29, 30, 33, 46, 59, 66, 205 Lyons, F. S. L. 100 ‘Elegy on the Tironian and Tirconnellian Princes Buried at MacCarthy, Denis Florence 28 Rome’ 23 MacDonagh, Donagh 95 ‘Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey Mac Gill-Eain, Somhairle 205 of Teach Molaga’ 24 Mac Lochlainn, Gearoid´ 150 ‘My Dark Rosaleen’ 21–3 MacNeice, Louis 2, 59, 79, 86–7, ‘O’Hussey’s Ode to the Maguire’ 23 89–95, 100, 120, 124, 180–1, ‘Siberia’ 25 191 ‘To the Ingleezee Khafir, Calling Autumn Journal 88–9, 92–4 Himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun’ Blind Fireworks 91 25 Burning Perch, The 94 ‘Woman of the Three Cows, The’ 24 Poems (1935) 87, 92 Martyn, Edward 63 ‘Slow Starter, The’ 94–5 Masefield, John 181 Solstices 94 Masters, Edgar Lee 44, 87 ‘Taxis, The’ 95 Mathews, P. J. 54 ‘Train to Dublin’ 88, 92 Matthews, Steven 107 Visitations 94 Mays, J. C. C. 98 MacPherson, James 8 McCabe, Cathal 198

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McCabe, James 20 Rough Field, The 107, 108 McCullers, Carson 180 Smashing the Piano 108 McDonald, Peter 90, 92, 95, 191–2, ‘Trout, The’ 106, 108 193, 204 ‘Water Carrier, The’ 108 ‘Three Rivers’ 192 and Modernism 106–7 ‘Victory Weekend, The’ 191–2 Moore, Brian 20 McDonogh, Patrick 95 Moore, George 175 McGuckian, Medbh 165, 167–72, 174, Moore, Thomas 5, 9–17, 18, 20, 29, 49, 177, 197 65 ‘Aviary’ 168–9 Fudge Family in Paris, The 13–14 Book of the Angel 170, 171–2 Irish Melodies 9, 10–12, 212n Captain Lavender 170 Lalla Rookh 11, 14–17, 28, 212n ‘Cathal’s Voice’ 170 Odes of Anacreon, The 10 Currach Requires No Harbours, The ‘Oh! Breathe Not His Name’ 11, 13, 170 23 Drawing Ballerinas 170 ‘On Music’ 12 Face of the Earth, The 170 ‘ParodyofaCelebratedLetter’ 13 Flower Master and Other Poems, The Twopenny Post-Bag 13 167 Moravia, Alberto 193 ‘Forcing Music to Speak’ 170–1 Morris, William 53, 61, 62–3 Had I a Thousand Lives 170–1 Morrissey, Sinead´ 174, 198, 204 ‘Mirror Game, The’ 170 Between Here and There 204 On Ballycastle Beach 167 State of the Prisons, The 204 Shelmalier 170 ‘Summer Festival’ 204 ‘Studies for a Running Angel’ 171–2 Movement, The 131 Venus and the Rain 167, 168 Muldoon, Paul 6, 95, 124, 141, 167, Meehan, Paula 165, 166 176, 177–85, 189, 192 Melville, Herman 209 Annals of Chile, The 183–4 Merrill, James 141 ‘At the Sign of the Black Horse’ Mhac an tSaoi, Maire´ 148 185 Milligan, Alice 49 ‘Bangle (Slight Return), The’ 184 Milosz, Czeslaw 140 ‘Gathering Mushrooms’ 179–80, Milton, John 2 183 Mitchel, John 20, 21, 25 General Admission 185 Mitchell, Susan L. 54 Hay 184 Modernism 44–6, 57, 59, 78, 80–1, 87, ‘Hedgehog’ 178 90, 92, 97–112 Horse Latitudes 185 Montague, John 89, 106–8, 110, 111, ‘Immram’ 178 161, 162, 164 ‘Incantata’ 183 ‘Bog Royal’ 107 ‘Madoc–AMystery’ 181–3, 184 Dead Kingdom, The 108 Meeting the British 180–1 FormsofExile 106 ‘More a Man Has the More a Man Great Cloak, The 108 Wants, The’ 178–9, 180 ‘Landing’ 108 Moy Sand and Gravel 185 Poisoned Land and Other Poems 106 Mules 178

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New Weather 124, 177–8 Northern Irish Renaissance 5, 53, Quoof 178–80 124–5, 128, 131–2, 142, 177, 182, ‘7, Middagh Street’ 180–1 198 ‘Sillyhow Stride’ 185 ‘Turkey Buzzards’ 185 O´ Bruadair, Daibh´ ´ı 154 Why Brownlee Left 178 O´ Conaire, Padraic´ 151 ‘Yarrow’ 183–4 O´ Direain,´ Mairt´ ´ın 148–9, 150 as translator 149–50 OD´ uill,´ Greag´ oir´ 33, 34, 38 Murphy, Richard 5, 114, 115–19, 124, O´ Duinnshleibhe,´ Tomas´ 7, 94, 144 128, 129, 176 O´ Rathaille, Aogan´ 147, 154, 162 Archæology of Love, The 115 O´ Riada, Sean´ 102–3 Battle of Aughrim, The 50, 116–17 OR´ ´ıordain,´ Sean´ 83, 111, 146–7, 148, ‘Cleggan Disaster, The’ 115 151, 222n ‘Convenience’ 118 Brosna 148 ‘Gate Lodge’ 118 ‘Cuireadh’ 146–7 ‘God Who Eats Corn, The’ 113–14, Eireaball Spideoige 146, 149 115, 120 ‘Reo’ 148 High Island 117 O´ Tuairisc, Eoghan 151 Kick, The 114 O´ Tuama, Sean´ 147 ‘Little Hunger’ 117 O’Callaghan, Conor 198, 206–7 ‘Natural Son’ 119 ‘Cover Version’ 206 Price of Stone, The 118–19 Fiction 206 ‘Reading Lesson, The’ 117 History of Rain, The 207 Sailing to an Island 115 ‘Middle Ground, The’ 207 ‘Sailing to an Island’ 115 Seatown 207 ‘Seals at High Island’ 117 ‘Slip’ 207 ‘Writing Lesson, The’ 117 O’Connor, Laura 161 family background 113–14 O’Donoghue, Bernard 115, 191, 192 O’Donoghue, Mary 185 Nation, The 21, 34, 37 O’Driscoll, Dennis 176, 177, 195–6 nationalism 1–2, 8–9, 17, 29, 59, 78, O’Hara, Frank 203 102–7, 164–5, 197, 210 O’Leary, John 62, 63 New Criticism 139, 198 O’Reilly, Caitr´ıona 174, 198, 209–10 N´ı Chuilleanain,´ Eilean´ 162, 172–4, Nowhere Birds, The 209 177 Sea Cabinet, The 209 ‘Early Recollections’ 173 ‘Sea Cabinet, The’ 209–10 Girl Who Married a Reindeer, The ‘Skin’ 209 173 Olson, Charles 107, 111 ‘Gloss/Clos/Glas’´ 172–3 Ordnance Survey 21, 34 ‘Translation’ 173 Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 155, 156 N´ı Dhomhnaill, Nuala 149–50, 151, Owen, Wilfred 59 152, 154, 174 interview with Medbh McGuckian Paor, Louis de 142, 224n 161–3 Parker, Michael 222n N´ı Dhuibhne, Eil´ ´ıs 51 Paulin, Tom 192

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Perse, Saint-John 97 Sewell, Frank 151 Petrie, George 21 Shakespeare, William 61, 162 Picasso, Pablo 44 Shan Van Vocht 49 Pinsky, Robert 188 Shelley, P. B. 3, 17, 18 Plath, Sylvia 209 Sidney, Philip 206 Poetry Ireland Review 195 Sigerson, George 27, 52–3 Pope, Alexander 19, 87 Simmons, James 125 Pound, Ezra 44, 45, 59, 69, 81, 97, 99, Sirr, Peter 197, 202–4 108, 193 ‘After a Day in the History of the and Vorticism 102 City’ 203 Pushkin, Alexander 42, 64 Bring Everything 198, 202–3 ‘Cathedral’ 203 Quinn, Antoinette 86, 87 ‘Edge Songs’ 203 ‘Essex Street’ 203 Ralegh, Walter 133 Nonetheless 203–4 Redmond, John 198 Smith, Ailbhe 161, 164 Revival 8, 38, 44–58, 59–79, 80–1, Southey, Robert 181–3 85–6, 87, 90, 97, 140, 144, 218n Spender, Stephen 90 Rhymers Club 63 Spenser, Edmund 18, 61 Rich, Adrienne 163 Stallworthy, Jon 91 Ricks, Christopher 28 Stephens, James 50, 218n Riley, Denise 167 Stevens, Wallace 158 Rilke, Rainer Maria 59 Stevenson, John 10 Rimbaud, Arthur 202 Sullivan, Moynagh 167, 171 Riordan, Maurice 191 Sweeney, Matthew 191 Robinson, Edwin Arlington 44 Swift, Jonathan 147 Rodgers, W. R. 95 Symons, Arthur 63 Roethke, Theodore 115 Synge, J. M. 3, 33, 38, 55–7, 74, 80, 86, ‘Rois´ ´ın Dubh’ 21–3 132 Rooney, Aidan 158 ‘In Glenasmole’ 56 Rossetti, Christina 49 ‘On a Birthday’ 56 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 39 Playboy of the Western World, The Rossetti, William Michael 49 54, 60, 63 Ruckert,¨ Friedrich 24 ‘Question, A’ 57 Ruskin, John 62 ‘Samhain’ 55

Saintsbury, George 10 T´ain B´o Cuailnge 35–6, 51, 101, 104, Salamun,ˇ Tomazˇ 175 214n Salkeld, Blanaid 80, 161 Tate, Allen 97–8 Santayana, George 91 Tennyson, Alfred 3, 27–8, 36, 38–9, 44, Schiller, Friedrich von 24 214n Schirmer, Gregory A. 84, 215n Thomas, Dylan 193 Scully, Maurice 108, 110–2, 166 Thomas, Edward 55, 59, 123, 128, 142, Livelihood 112 155 Things That Happen 110 Tieck, Ludwig 24 and Irish language 112 Times Literary Supplement 159

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Traherne, Thomas 192 Collected Poems (1933) 78 translation (see Irish language and ‘Coole and Ballylee’ 77 translation, the) ‘Coole Park, 1929’ 77 Tynan, Katharine 49, 50, 55, 171 Countess Cathleen, The 63 ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ 77, 140 Valery,´ Paul 59, 123, 156–8 ‘Easter, 1916’ 60, 67–8, 71 Vere, Aubrey de 27, 28 ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ 4 Verlaine, Paul 63, 205 ‘Fisherman, The’ 70–1, 85–6 Verse 174 Full Moon in March, A 77 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 19, 28, Green Helmet, The 67 29, 30, 154, 156, 184, 187 ‘Gyres, The’ 77 ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Wall, Eamonn 185 Con Markievicz’ 50, 77 Walsh, Catherine 108, 111, 166–7 ‘In Memory of Major Robert Warner, Marina 149 Gregory’ 70, 183 Warren, Robert Penn 97 In the Seven Woods 67 Welch, Robert 8, 9, 18, 19, 48 ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree, The’ 64 Wellesley, Dorothy 70 Land of Heart’s Desire, The 63–4 Wheatley, David 20, 146, 159, 198, ‘Lapis Lazuli’ 77 205–6 Last Poems and Two Plays 77 ‘Bankside-Wincolmlee by ‘Leda and the Swan’ 75 Instamatic’ 205 ‘Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland, ‘Errancy, An’ 205 The’ 64 ‘Fintan and the Hawk of Achill’ 205 ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ Misery Hill 198, 205 73–4 Mocker 205–6 Michael Robartes and the Dancer 68, ‘Sonnet’ 205 71 Thirst 205 ‘Municipal Gallery Re-visited, The’ Whitman, Walt 44, 84 77 Wilde, Oscar 57–8, 63 New Poems 77 Wilde, William 27 ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ Williams, William Carlos 107, 108, 109 74–5 Wills, Clair 167, 183 ‘No Second Troy’ 67 Wingﬁeld, Sheila 95 On Baile’s Strand 67 Wordsworth, William 3, 32, 162 On the Boiler 79 Wright, Richard 180 Oxford Book of Modern Poetry, The 97 Yeats, W. B. 2, 3, 5, 17, 20, 33, 35, ‘Pity of Love, The’ 64 37–8, 49, 50, 53, 58, 59–79, 80, 83, Poems (1895) 63–7 94, 100, 122, 124, 147, 153, 175 ‘Politics’ 77, 78 ‘Adam’s Curse’ 67 ‘Prayer for My Daughter, A’ 71 ‘Among School Children’ 76–7 Responsibilities 68 ‘Blood and the Moon’ 77 ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ 71 ‘Bronze Head, A’ 77, 78 ‘Second Coming, The’ 71 ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’ 77 ‘September 1913’ 67, 68 ‘Coat, A’ 68 ‘Sorrow of Love, The’ 78

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Yeats, W. B. (cont.) Wind Among the Reeds, The 67 ‘Statues, The’ 77 Winding Stair and Other Poems, The ‘Stolen Child, The’ 64, 65–6 77 ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ ‘Youth and Age’ 75 64, 66–7 and family 68–9, 71, 73–4 Tower, The 71–7 and gender 161 ‘Tower, The’ 71–3, 78, 79 and Hugh Lane bequest 60 ‘Under Ben Bulben’ 77, 80 and inﬂuence 4, 55, 94, 115 ‘Vacillation’ 77 and the Irish language 4, 52, 59, Vision, A 75 60–1, 79, 144 Wanderings of Oisin, The 28, 63, and mythology 177 66 and the occult 67, 217n ‘Wanderings of Oisin, The’ 64 and revisions 78 ‘Who Goes with Fergus’ 64 and the Revival 80, 86 Wild Swans at Coole, The 70 ‘Wild Swans at Coole, The’ 70 Zukofsky, Louis 101, 106, 111